A man walks into a school June 25 at 8:35 a.m. and a poll worker says “four” to denote he is the fourth person in his election district to cast a ballot in the Democratic primary for Queens District Attorney.
No joke—just an early sign that turnout in the borough was going to be surprisingly low, given the stakes in a contest in which one of the two front-runners had declared that while she favored the closing of Rikers Island as soon as possible, she opposed resurrecting the Queens House of Detention to hold inmates once that happened.
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